Improvement in street-car awnings



l. T. GRAW.

Street-Car. wnings.l

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ITNESSES i NITD STATES PATENT OFFICE,

JOSEPH T. ORAV, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN STREET-CAR AWNl-NGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. l5 1,855, dated June 9,1874; application tiled April e, 1874. 1

To all whom 'it may concern Be it known that I, JosEPH T. GRAW, ofJersey City, in the county ot' Hudson and State of New Jersey, haveinvented a new and Improved Street-Car Awning; and I do hereby declarethat the following -is a full,

clear, and exact description of the same, ref erence being had to theaccompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, in which-Figure 1 shows the awning applied to a car. Figs. 2 and 3 arerespectively end and sectional elevations. Fig. 4 is a plan View.

The invention has for its object to provide an improved awning for theend platforms of street-cars, which may be readily adjusted to suit thevarying conditions of sun or shade and dry or damp weather.

In carrying out my invention I attach one end of a curtain to a rollermounted in fixed bearings, and the other to a movable or extensiblerack-frame operated by'pinions, which are applied to the ends of theroller-shaft, the arrangement being such that the movement of the frame.i11 or out, turns the shaft in one direction or the other, and thuswinds or unwinds the curtain, as hereinafter described.

In the drawing, the car A is represented as.

provided with the ordinary platform B and projecting root' C. The rollerD, upon which the curtain E is wound, is hung in brackets a, whichdepend from a bar, F, that is attached to the under side of the roof C,as shown. The other end ot the curtain is attached to the bar G, whichjoins the ends of parallel rods b and rack-bars d, composingtheadjustable frame. These rods and rackbars are supported horizontally, ornearly so, in brackets i, which, like the roller-brackets, are attachedto the bar G. A gear or pinion, H, is applied to each end of the rollerD, and meshes with one of the rack-bars d.

It is evident from this arrangement that when the aWning-fra1nc ispushed or drawn forward the pinion H will be rotated, and thereby theroller also, thus unwinding the curtain correspondingly; andcontrariwise, when the frame is pushed or drawn back, the roller willrotate in the reverse direction and take up the slack of the curtain.The frame may be locked in any adjustment by means of the thumb-pawl o,which is pivoted to one of thev brackets i, and engages the teeth of arack-bar, d.

The awning may be applied to cars in use, as well as others of newmanufacture. Any suitable mechanical appliance may be employed to adjustthe frame in or out, but it can ordinarily be conveniently and easilyeffected by hand.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is In an awning forstreet-cars, the combination ofthe iixed roller, provided with pinions,the sliding rack-bar frame, and the curtain attached at its respectiveends to the roller and cross-bar G, all as herein shown and described,whereby the movement of the frame, in or-out, winds orunwinds thecurtain, as specified.

JOSEPH T. ORAVV.

YVitnesses SoLoN C. KEMoN, A W. HART.

